Bedpost-bracket.



C. F. STREIT.

BEDPOST BRACKET.

APPLICATION man FEB. 12. 1915.

Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

Jim-

THE COLUMBIA PLANOIJRAPH co., WASHINGTON, n. r

CARDF. STREIT, OFCINGI'N'NATI, 'OI II O.

I j BEDPOST-BRACKET.

To all whom; it may concern. i Be it known that I, CARL F. S'rRErr, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Cincinnati, inthe county of Hamilton'and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bedpost-Brackets, of which the following specification is a full disclosure. s a Y My invention relates "to an improved form of corner brackets as an article of manufacture and has particular relation to an integral sheet metal structure of universal character adapted for use at any one of the four corners of a square or.,re'ctangular frame formed of angle-iron rails of suitable lengths. V

The particular adaptatiomherein illustrated, relates to the use 'offmy improved bracket as a corner bracket for bedsteads although it will be obvious that it may readilybe applied to other articles of furniture or to any article of manufacture requiring a rectangular or square frame supported at its corners.

The major object therefore is to provide a sheet metal corner bracket of universal application as an article of manufacture formedfrom an integral blank and combining a supporting base and a pair of right angled rail supporting extensions. This and other objects and features of the invention are more fully hereinafter described in the description of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this disclosure, in which a Figure 1 isa perspective view of onecorner of a bedsteadshowing my improved corner bracket. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the blank from which the bracket is formed. Fig. 3 is a section on line' 3-3, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4-4, Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a view, similar to 3, showing the side rail attached in inverted position. Fig. 6 is a side elevation of head andfoot frames, corner posts and the brackets in telescopic or nested engagement. i

The blank from which the bracket is formed is of the same specific'contour on both sides of its longitudinal medial line when bent into shape and provides opposed right angled rail supports. This design of blank forms a bracket of universal application, without having to provide separate right and left handbrackets.

In Fig. 1, 1 represents the corner post of Specification of Letters Patent.

cave contour in cross section an angular Patented Mar. 14, 1916.

Ap ucamfiaa February 12,1915. Serial No. 7,739.

a bed frame, 2 a corner bracket,3 the longitudmal side rail and 4 the cross rail.

Referring to the blank in Fig. 2, it will be noted that it is transversely subdivided into three sections by the dotted lines 31 and 35, which represent the lines of the fold'at which the blank is bent to form the reinforced supporting base, U-shaped in cross section, having a flange portion 5, and side.

walls 7 and 8. The flange portion may be longitudinally grooved or stamped to conto adapt it for use in connection w th round or square posts and is apertured at 30 to accommodate the screws 6. Continuous withthe center portion of the walls 7, 8, are extensions 7 and 10, the extension 7 being subdivided into three divisions by the dotted lines 36, 37 and the extension 10 being also subdivided into three divisions by dotted lines 33, 34. The subdivisions or plates 9, 9, are bent inwardly at the dotted lines 36, 37, and at right angles to the extension 7 forming a longitudinal rail support, which is U-shaped v in cross-section or of channel beam formation. The extension 10 is bent backwardly at the dotted line 32 and the subdivisions 11, 11 are bent forwardly at the dotted lines 33, 34, thereby forming reinforcing shelves which, when the bracket is bent into form, assume a position, adjacent the inner surface of the free ends of the plates 9, 9, thereby forming a reinforcement for said subdivisions. The

free ends of the plates9, 9', are apertur ed at 18, 21, and the shelves 11, 11 are correspond ingly apertured at 19, 22, and when the bracket is completed these apertures are alined to accommodate the bolts 17,20. The extension .10 is apertured at 16, 23, to accommodate the bolt 15. The corner edges formed by the extension 7 and the plates .9, 9, are apertured at 40 to accommodate the side rail securing bolt 12.- The side or. longitudinal anglerail 3 is secured to the bracket, as shown in Fig. 3, by the bolt 12 extending through an aperture in said rail and through one of the apertures 40 and coiiperating with block 13, which engages the m ner corner of the U-shaped rail support, the parts being rigidly united by a thumb nut 14.

If desired, the side rail 3 may be inverted and secured to the bracket in such inverted position, as shown in Fig. 5. The vertical flange of the angle cross rail 4 is secured to the vertical side Wall extension 10 by the ,and'by the the rails being bolt 15 extending through anyaperture in said rail flange and the aperture 16 in the wall 10. The horizontal flange of the cross rail 4 is secured to the rail-supporting table plate 9 and its reinforcing shelf 11 by the bolt 17 extending through an apertiuie in said rail flange and alined apertures '18, 19,

inthe table plate andreinforcing' shelf re- J spectively. The table plate ,9 and the reinforcing shelf 11 are united "by the'bolt 20 extending through falined apertures2l, 22 in said members. .If desired, the cross-rail '4 may, be inverted, .an additional aperture 23 being formed in the eXtensionfllO for this purpose, but asthis inverted assembling of the cross rail and bracket is rarely utilized, specific illustration has been omitted.

It will, of course, be understood that when 1 -without the use of short auxiliary side rails,

by nesting or telescopically uniting the companion brackets}? For thispurpose, I provide the side wall 7 with an extension tongue 25, of a width slightly'less than the distance between the inner surface of the two plates 9, 9.

tongues of a opair of companion brackets overlap each other, as shown, andjthe brackets are then secured together by bolts '26 projectingthrough alined apertures 27.

From the above disclosure'it will be seen 7 that I have provided a corner 'bracketwhich is of a universal character, relative to its various applications, and which, by its formation from a single sheet metal blank, orms a very rigid and inexpensive structure refinement of its design'permits secured theretoin several dif ferent positions as desired, and'while I have and angleiron rails it will 'be Within the scope of this invention to provide rails of other forms, such as channel-iron. Having described my invention, I claim:- 1. Abracket as an article of manufacture .formedfrom a single sheet vmetal blank, divided 'intothree partsby transverse lines "of fold, forming a base and a pair of opserves as a universal bracket When the brackets are in nested relationship, (see Fig. 6), these s1 own a coi peration between the brackets extension being subdivided by longitudinal lines of fold into threeparts', bent to form intermeshingau shaped rail supports, 7

A universal corner bracket as an article manufacture formed from supporting plates.

extending horizontally from oppositeedges'of one'side'wall, and reinforcing shelves extending -,fr.om the lopposite side wall coasting with the free ends from oppositeedges of- -one side wall'gand a single sheet I metal blank and comprising a supporting base, side walls extendlng thenefno'rmmatll from; a single sheet i forming therewith ,rightangled side rail supports, a vertical,extensionlconnecited .to

the opposite'wa'll and horizontalreinforeing shelves connected to said vertical side Wall extension and enacting with the free e l 1 of the rail supporting plates, said vertical side wall extensionandthe free ends er the rail supporting plates forming right angled cross rail supports. v

4. A universal corner bracket as an article of manufacture formed from a single sheet metal blank and comprising a supporting base, side walls extending therefrom, rail supporting plates integral with onehside wall and extending into coa'ctive engagement with the opposite side wall, and a tongue projecting from one of said side walls adapted to intermesh' with and be secured to a companion ibracket. f

5, A universal corner bracket for bedsteads formed from single sheet metal blank apertured 'to V cotlpera'te with ra'i'l 'sfastoning devices and com rising at supporting base, oppositely disposed sidewalls, Jelliforcing shelves formed integral with ,one of'said side walls,

a rigid structure.

rail supporting plates formed integral with the opposite side-wall In witness whereof, 'I "hereunto subscribe my name, .as attested byithe'two fsubscrlibing witnesses. I v o 7 .STREIBL Witnesses: o y

C. B. Fos'rnn, L. A. BECK.

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